TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I THE CHURCH'S FESTIVALS IN GENERAL 1. Introduction 1 2. Sunday and its Observation as a Day of Rest 6 3. The Classification of Festivals 13 4. The Gradual Increase of Festivals. Their Decrease In The Last Three Centuries. The Present Position 16 CHAPTER I.— THE CHURCH'S YEAR A. Easter, and the Sacred Seasons connected 1. Easter, its Name and History 37 2. The Connection of the Christian Festival with The Jewish 42 3. The Circumstances which led to Easter Being a Movable Feast 46 4. The Final Settlement Of The Date Of Easter, And The Attempts Made To Commemorate The Day Of The Month On Which Christ Died 52 5. The Liturgical Celebration of Holy Week and Easter 59 Palm Sunday 66 Maundy Thursday 69 Good Friday 73 Holy Saturday 79 Easter and the Easter Octave 84 PART II Easter 6. The Preparation for Easter — Quadragesimia and The Fast 88 7. The Season of Preparation as an Integral Part Of The Church's Year 100 8. The Transfiguration 105 9. The Ascension 106 10. Whitsunday 109 11. Trinity Sunday 116 12. Corpus Christi. The Forty Hours' Prayer. The Festival of the Sacred Heart 119 B. CHRISTMAS AND THE CHRISTMAS SEASON 1. Christmas 127 2. Advent and the Sundays until Septuagesima 158 3. The Octave of Christmas. The Circumcision. The New Year 163 4. The Epiphany 166 5. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas) 173 6. The Sundays of the Chubch's Yeab as fobbong Connecting Links between the Pbincipal Feasts 176 C. Other Incidents in the Church's Year 1. The Embertides 183 2. Litanies or Rogations 189 3. The Dedication of a Church and the Festival of the Patron Saint 194 CHAPTER II.— THE SAINTS' DAYS 1. The Origins of the Cultus of the Saints and the Grounds on which it bests 203 2. The Festivals Of St John THE Baptist AND St Stephen The Proto-Martyr 217 3. Festivals of Our Blessed Lady in Genebal 225 4. The Three Ancient Festivals of oub Blessed Lady— the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Assumption 230 5. Institution and Spread of the Festival of the Immaculate Conception 239 6. The Lesser Feasts of Our Lady— i. The Name of Mary 264 ii. The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple 265 iii The Fudtation 266 iv. The Feast of the Holy Bosary 268 7. The Feast of St Joseph. The Cultus of SS. Joachim And Anne 272 8. The Festivals of the Apostles in General . 277 9. The Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists in Particular 282 I. St Peter and St Paul 282 II. The Feast of St Peter's Chains 287 III. The Conversion of St Paul 288 IV. St Andrew and St Luke the Evangelist 289 V. St James the Great 291 VI. St Philip and St James the Less 293 VII. St John 296 VIII. St Simon and St Jude (Thaddeus) 298 IX. St Mark the Evangelist 300 X. The Feast of St Peter's Chair 301 10. The Festivals of St Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, And St Catherine — I. St Mary Magdalen 309 II St Cecilia 315 III. St Catherine 321 11. The Festival of All Saints 323 12. The Commemoration of All Souls 326 13. The Festivals of the Angels 328 14. The Two Festivals in Honour of the Holy Cross 333 THE MATERIAL UPON WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESLiSTICAL YEAR IS BASED 1. The Documentary Sources in General 342 2. The Earliest Christian Calendars 347 3. The Asian Calendar of the Fourth Century 363 4. The So-called Martyrologium Hieronymianum 368 5. The Lectionary and Martyrology of Silos 378 6. Egyptian (Coptic) Calendars and Synaxaria 381 7. The Menology of Constantinople 387 8. The Menology of the Emperor Basil II., and the Syrian Lectionary of the Eleventh Century 390 9. The Kalendarium Marmoreum of Naples 394 10. Western Authorities prom the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries 396 11. The Martyrologies of Bede, Florus, Wandelbert, And Aengus 401 12. The Martyrologies of Ado, Usuardus, Rabanus Maurus, and Notker Balbulus 409 13. Important Calendars prom the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries 410 Conclusion 419 I. Classification of Feasts in the Roman Calendar 421 II. On some Lists of Festivals 421 II. The Festivals of Obligation as observed in Different Countries 423 IV. Liturgical Vestments 430 V. The Word Mass as a Name for the Sacrifice of THE Altar VI. On the Date for Christmas in Hippolytus 437 VII. Christmas in England during the Commonwealth 439 VIII. Excursus on the Three Holy Kings 442 IX. The Greek Ecclesiastical Tear 445 X. English Writers and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception 447 XI. Excursus on the so-called Typica Chronological Table 449 Index 457 APPENDIX Digitized by Google.

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